“We have a new student at our school. In her second week here she had gotten into trouble at lunch, which had prompted our vice principal to make a phone call home. Her mother expressed how much she wanted her daughter to meet with someone at the school for extra support. She immediately began working…
“It has been a busy December! I have had a lot of support from the community to provide some of my families with gifts for Christmas. Olive Garden provided a giving tree, The Bottle Shop sponsored two students, Blue Buffalo adopted one family with three students, Martins Country Mart in Fountain City sponsored two families,…
“After receiving my 10 Thanksgiving boxes from LifeSpring Church, I set out to get them to my Westview families. All 10 were accounted for, however, one family was hard to get a hold of and I didn’t feel comfortable dropping it at their door without knowing someone was home to receive it. After a few…
“I was contacted by a site coordinator about a family being homeless in August. I then reached out to the family and met them at a campground, where they had been living in a tent for the last two weeks. The family consists of 2 middle school children, mom, and dad. After speaking with the…
“A team of 20 volunteers meets monthly at First English Lutheran Church to assemble bags of food for Wayne County elementary students. We assemble and deliver food bags to 400 children in all 5 Wayne County school corporations. In addition to the individual food bags, boxes of snacks are distributed to the secondary schools in…
“There is a family with two sons at Lincoln High School, and they started off the year doing online learning by joining classes through Zoom. Their grandma had some health issues, and their mom had to go stay with her in Kentucky for a while, so she left her sons in the care of her…
Thanks to the generous donations from LifeSpring Church, CIS Wayne County was able to provide Thanksgiving meals to 171 Wayne County families! Here’s a story showing the impact these boxes have on our families: “One of my families was overly excited to receive a Thanksgiving box and voucher. The mother works extremely hard to take…